El Chapo's wife Emma Coronel Aispuro transferred to Texas prison

Emma Coronel Aispuro, the wife of imprisoned Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, was transferred to a minimum-security penitentiary in Texas from an undisclosed place. Coronel was registered Monday as an inmate at FMC Carswell, a federal medical center in Fort Worth with an adjacent minimum security satellite camp, Federal Bureau of Prisons’ record shows. She was previously held at an undisclosed facility, reportedly for security reasons. Coronel, a dual U.S.-Mexican citizen born in California, was arrested in February 2021 at Washington Dulles International Airport and charged with participating in a conspiracy to smuggle cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin and marijuana into the United States for unlawful distribution.

The 32-year-old former beauty queen was sentenced to three years in prison and is expected to be released from the Texas facility in September, 2022, records show. The sentence also includes 48 months of parole under specific restrictions and a fine of $1.5 million. Coronel married Guzman when she was 18 years old and has twin daughters with the notorious drug lord, who led the Mexican Sinaloa Cartel. Coronel attended proceedings of her husband's trial in a New York federal court in 2018. Guzman was extradited from Mexico the previous year and found guilty of 10 counts related to drug trafficking and engaging in an international criminal enterprise. He was sentenced to life in prison. Court documents in the case against Coronel say that she is the daughter of Inés Coronel Barreras, a convicted high-ranking deputy in the Sinaloa Cartel who handled drug transportation operations for Guzman.